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Oscars 2013: Blogging From the Press Room

See also: *More L.A. Weekly film coverage *How a $45,000 Oscar Gift Bag Is Born Our report from the press room is adapted from tweets at @laweeklyarts and @zpincusroth -- follow us there too. [Updated: 10:25 pm] 10:11 pm Anne Hathaway has press room's most sincere line of the night, on why she s ... More >>

The 2013 Oscars Drinking Game

The Oscars are on Sunday, and if you plan on sitting through the entire show -- all 3 hours of it, with Seth MacFarland as host -- well, you might need a little help. Which is why we put together a little drinking game: This, hopefully, will give you something to do while the awards are doled out, ... More >>

Les Misérables Doesn't Dream Big Enough

The Oscars are on Sunday, and if you plan on sitting through the entire show -- all 3 hours of it, with Seth MacFarland as host -- well, you might need a little help. Which is why we put together a little drinking game: This, hopefully, will give you something to do while the awards are doled out, ... More >>

UC Logo Put Out Of Its Misery

UC officials tried to argue their case for the atrocious new system-wide logo they foisted upon the world. They said would be used primarily online and that the 1868 "Let There Be Light" logo would remain for old-school letters and the like. No dice:

Dark Knight Rises Review

Self-important and overstuffed, The Dark Knight Rises feels like Batman forever

Chicano Batman, Caped Crusader

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] With the July 20 release of The Dark Knight Rises, the iconic Batman franchise returns for its seventh summer with the usual panoply of "pows," "bangs" and Chri ... More >>

Dawn Hudson, Academy CEO, Thrashed by Anonymous Old White Men in LA Times Roast

Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesHudson takes on the haters.​Half a year into her stint as CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Dawn Hudson got a cutting performance review from the Los Angeles Times last weekend. The Times piece is not, at face value, an editorial evaluation of Hu ... More >>

Top 10 Street Art and Graffiti Stories of 2011

Shannon CottrellJR in L.A.​Yes, year-end lists. Not even street art is exempt. But hey, 2011 was a banner year for the Los Angeles street art and graffiti communities, as they enjoyed plenty of worldwide attention. LA Weekly put together the ten L.A.-related street art and graffiti stories th ... More >>

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Orpheum Theatre - 10-10-11

Timothy NorrisJoseph Gordon Levitt discussing the nature of love with Neil Patrick Harris​Joseph Gordon-Levitt hitRECord Fall Formal The Orpheum Theatre October 10, 2011 No one was really quite sure how this was going to work. All people could be sure of was that Joseph-Gordon Levitt had buil ... More >>

Best Above-Average Joe

Timothy NorrisJoseph Gordon Levitt discussing the nature of love with Neil Patrick Harris​Joseph Gordon-Levitt hitRECord Fall Formal The Orpheum Theatre October 10, 2011 No one was really quite sure how this was going to work. All people could be sure of was that Joseph-Gordon Levitt had buil ... More >>

Eddie Murphy's 10 Comedy Bits To Avoid as Oscar Host

Flicker/wereswanEddie Murphy's head is about to get bigger as the upcoming Oscar host.​ What a wild idea: Eddie Murphy as Oscar host. On the bright side, it's a relief from James Franco and Anne Hathaway, whose chemistry last February rivaled that of a sasquatch and Kathie Lee Gifford. For t ... More >>

R.I.P. Leonard Stern, Inventor of Mad Libs

Leonard Stern, turning everyman to funnyman since 1958​We don't normally obit every Hollywood vet who dies a peaceful death after a golden old age in the Hills, but Leonard Stern, who Deadline Hollywood reports died Tuesday at 88 years old, transcended the film/TV industry to bestow a gift upo ... More >>

Rio

Leonard Stern, turning everyman to funnyman since 1958​We don't normally obit every Hollywood vet who dies a peaceful death after a golden old age in the Hills, but Leonard Stern, who Deadline Hollywood reports died Tuesday at 88 years old, transcended the film/TV industry to bestow a gift upo ... More >>

Stars of Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared Converge at Paley Fest Reunion

Many beloved television series get asked back to the Paley Festival during their runs. Then there are those short-run shows whose brief lives on air have been surpassed by their staying power with audiences so that a retrospective draws passionate fans back for more. Such is the love for Judd Apatow ... More >>

LA Phil's #Ask Gustavo: Celebrity Edition!

Anika Noni Rose will play a more innocent vixen this weekend​The city of Los Angeles loves the wild-haired wizard of Walt Disney Concert Hall, conductor Gustavo Dudamel. The LA Phil knows the gold mine they got with their music director--he made even us classical-music commoners stop yawning a ... More >>

Nikki Finke, Elusive Hollywood Blogger, Makes Stink About Oscars 'Nightmare,' or the 'Worst Snorecast Ever'

Pwned.​Updated after the jump: Audio of Nikki Finke calling for the resignation of Academy President Tom Sherak! Worlds more entertaining than the Academy Awards themselves this year were the fang-tastic bloggings of celeb scooper Nikki Finke -- a celebrity in her own right, though she's take ... More >>

Oscars 2011: The Most Embarrasing Academy Awards Ever?

"It's the young and hip Oscars!" So chirped Anne Hathaway when returning to the mic after 50 year-old winner Melissa Leo--looking much more legitimately glamorous than in those for your consideration ads she controversially self-financed--spontaneously let the word "fucking" escape her lips whil ... More >>

Spain's Rock Star Chefs Descend on L.A., Part 3

So what did Juan Mari Arzak, Ferran Adrià and José Andrés love eating while they were in Los Angeles? Umami Burger and Kogi. Maybe other things too, but we didn't have a chance to find out. Near the end of the talk, they took questions from the audience. After the mundane, the meaningless and ... More >>

James Franco, Anne Hathaway To Host Oscars?

Movie WebAnne Hathaway and James Franco are rumored to be cast together in a future "Alien" prequel​Access Hollywood and USA Today -- followed by everyone else, now, in a game of scrambly Hollywood telephone -- are reporting that dashing youngsters James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been chos ... More >>

LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS

Movie WebAnne Hathaway and James Franco are rumored to be cast together in a future "Alien" prequel​Access Hollywood and USA Today -- followed by everyone else, now, in a game of scrambly Hollywood telephone -- are reporting that dashing youngsters James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been chos ... More >>

How To See Movies For Free: A Guide to AFI Fest Ticketing

Evil Ballerina Natalie Portman wants you to Rush for AFI Tickets​ This week's big local film story is the launch of AFI Fest 2010, which begins tonight with a gala screening of the naked Anne Hathaway movie Love and Other Drugs, and will screen over 60 features over the next seven days, inclu ... More >>

Day 3: Hannibal Moncrief, Class Warfare, & The Hollow Earth

​ A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirements for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Liverpool, Dreamkiller, Brooklyn's Finest, Alice in Wonderland

​ A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirements for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no ... More >>

Sony Scrambling on Spidey

How a badly troubled script doomed Spider-Man 4

Paparazzo On Bike Slams Into Car Carrying Anne Hathaway

The paparazzi that call L.A. home are as bold as ever. In between scuffling with Kanye and chasing down Lindsay, they're coming up with ever more clover ways to get that money shot. One shooter appeared to be overzealous in chasing down actress Anne Hathaway on a bike as she rode through West Hollyw ... More >>

Alice in Wonderland Fashion Battle: Tim Burton's New School vs. Cartoon Disney Old School

Tim Burton's film adaptation of Alice In Wonderland isn't out until next year, but if the promo photos are any indication, it's going to be the most visually arresting, luxurious Alice yet. Here's a look at how new Alice stacks up against older Alices from a fashion perspective. 1. Alice The new ... More >>

GO LA: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Young Frankenstein and Other Horrors

Plus, Doug Stanhope, Fake Radio, Oliver Sacks and more, April 17-23

I MOP LA

Plus, Doug Stanhope, Fake Radio, Oliver Sacks and more, April 17-23

Academy Gets Nominations Wrong — Again

It's far more riveting to watch upheavals at SAG and Variety

Bride Wars, Not Easily Broken, The Unborn

Also, Tracing Cowboys and Yonkers Joe

Film Poll 2008: WALL-E World

The little robot that could tops another chart

Movie Reviews: Filth and Wisdom, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Splinter

Also, Fear(s) of the Dark, The Other End of the Line and more

Movie Reviews: High School Musical 3, Passengers, Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom

Also, The Tree of Life, Frontrunners and more

I've Loved You So Long: Kristin Scott Thomas' Monster Mom

British actress shines in middlebrow French melodrama

Rachel Getting Married: Anne Hathaway Plays the Other Sister

Actress makes compelling bad girl in pedestrian family drama

Disappointments and Surprises: Toronto International Film Festival

When good directors go bad

Movie Reviews: Bustin' Down the Door, Love Comes Lately

Also, A Man Named Pearl, CSNY: Deja Vu and more

Hot Topic? At Hollywood & Highland, Perez Hilton Unveils His New Fashion Line

I see Perez underpants

Too Cute for Their Own Good

Little children in the movies

Becoming Jane: Romp and Circumstance

Ms. Austen has a fling

And I'm Telling You...

The Style Council's Oscar winners and losers

And I'm Telling You...

Thank god for Andre Leon Talley. After enduring E!s super-geeky/freaky coverage of the Oscars red carpet last night, we switched over to ABC's own, and the Vogue columnist was definitely a breath of fresh air, talking fashion and film in a fabulous way that only a flamboyant gay man can. Our only c ... More >>

Great Scot

Sipping tea with James McAvoy

Best Films of 2006 (In No Order That Makes Sense, With Liberal Cheating)

Sipping tea with James McAvoy

En Vogue

Prada probes the Wintour of a former assistant’s discontent

Lonesome Doves

Riding the range with Ang Lee’s lovelorn cowboys

Will’s World

In love with Shakespeare

The Year of The Sopranos

Adding up '99